As we've been discussing Elizabeth Daly and her books about Henry Gamadge as part of "Moonlighting for Murder" this week, I hope you'll be moved to try one or two of them. Looking back, I see that I have reviewed a half-dozen of them on the Classic Mysteries podcasts, and you can find them all listed alphabetically on the backlist page.
One Daly book in particular that I think would be worth your while is "Evidence of Things Seen," written in 1943 - in fact, it came out immediately ahead of "Arrow Pointing Nowhere." I did a fairly lengthy post about "Evidence of Things Seen" last year, and I hope that it will give you an idea of some of the book's strengths. It's an impossible crime situation - the murder couldn't possibly have happened unless, of course, you believed that a ghost was responsible. It takes Gamadge to demonstrate that this murder was firmly rooted in reality after all.
I think Henry Gamadge is a fascinating character - and his wife, Clara, is a delight as well. She's a central figure in "Evidence of Things Seen." If you don't know the Gamadges, I hope you'll be persuaded to meet them this week.
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